The Martin Luther King, Jr. State Commission, part of the Governor’s Office of Minority Empowerment, is seeking nominations for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Citizenship Award, along with essays and artwork for the esteemed King Award.
The theme for the essays and artwork is “Exploring the ‘King’ in You.” The contest is open to kindergarten to 12th-grade students who may submit an essay or two-dimensional artwork that reflects a student’s most inspired King moment or speech.

Several drivers were honored at Saturday’s awards celebration at Bluegrass Speedway. The top 10 in each division received plaques.
Track promoters David and Anita Ferrell received the STARS Midwest Dirt Racing League Promoter of the Year Award. The Ferrells announced they will not return as promoters next season. They’ve spent 12 seasons at the track.

Nicholas Paden, a LaRue County High School senior, is a finalist in the Wendy’s High School Heisman Award. In Kentucky, 940 student athletes applied. Only 20 were named state finalists.
Paden has been a starter for the LCHS wrestling team since eighth grade, is a four-time regional champ and two-time state placer (third and sixth). He has been ranked nationally and is being recruited by Princeton, Duke University and University of Chicago.

Two LaRue County High School cross country runners earned at-large individual berths Saturday at the Class AA Region 2 championship meet at Ephram White Park in Bowling Green.
Freshman Kristina Durbin and sophomore Adam Sandidge will compete at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.
Durbin, who was 10th in 22:06.05, punched her second State ticket after finishing 41st in Lexington last year.

LaRue County was held to a season-low 46 yards Friday night as the Hawks ended their season with a 7-0 loss to the visiting Wayne County Cardinals in the first round of the Class 2-A playoffs.
The Hawks (6-5), featuring a pair of 2,000-yard career rushers in seniors Drew Newberry and Cody Thompson, were limited to 37 rushing yards on 30 carries.

“The Singing Princess,” a stage adaption of the popular children's book of the same name, will be produced in the Russ Mobley of the Alumni Building at 114 University Drive, Campbellsville, at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18.

The production is free and open to the public.

Starr Garrett, artistic director of the play, said they are encouraging parents to read the book with their children and then take them to the production.

A grand jury will hear charges of second-degree burglary and theft by unlawful taking against two Hodgenville men.

Kevin LeeWayne Lewis, 21, and Joseph L. Sheldon, 20, are accused of entering a residence on Upton-Talley Road and taking an iPod Nano and a small collector’s John Deere mailbox with change in it.

Probable cause was found Nov. 3 in LaRue District Court to send the charges to a higher court. Bond was set at $25,000 with no release until a GPS has been provided to the men. They were ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim or location.